Anti-social behaviour in Fitzalan Square is affecting Sheffield businesses

The Star, Sheffield

Sunny Sharma, manager at Charka Lounge, in Fitzalan Square, is calling on the authority to address the 'growing' number of homeless people in Sheffield City Centre.

Transcript

00:00I mean, I can't tell police to kick them out. It's not right.

00:04I mean, they have right. They are living beings.

00:07I'm not telling council or police to kick them out from here.

00:11Where are they going to go? They will go somewhere else.

00:14Then they will be pushed out from there. They will go somewhere else.

00:17They will be pushed out from there.

00:19So, I don't know if council can find a solution for it.

00:23If council can keep a strong eye on it.

00:26Or pinpoint the main solution. Or pinpoint the main problem behind it.

00:31That would be helpful.

00:33Instead of just kicking them from one area to another area.

00:37Which is not a solution.

00:39So, yeah. I mean, throughout.

00:42Through this, from your voice, from our voice.

00:46If council can find a solution for that.

00:49And help them.

00:51Or send someone to keep an eye on this area.

00:54So, if that thing is not an issue for people.

00:58For coming this side.

01:00For the businesses like us.

01:02Or other businesses which are around us.

01:05To face all those problems.

01:07Any kind of help. Any kind of solution.

01:11Will be grateful for us.

01:14And for this square as well.

01:16This basically has turned into a living area.

01:19Or spotting area for people.

01:21You said earlier that you ask your staff not to come in through the back door.

01:27Yeah, the thing is, they are here.

01:30And they drink sometimes.

01:32And they fight.

01:34And I don't want my staff to be involved somehow in that situation.

01:39And be a part of it.

01:41Or get injured or anything.

01:43Because we don't know how the outcome is going to be in their fight.

01:48So, we have a back door.

01:50We have a back door.

01:51We use it to throw bins out and stuff out.

01:54But I've been told.

01:56I mean, I've told them not to come this way anymore.

02:01And we can hear them screaming in our kitchen.

02:03Because it's right there.

02:05So, we can hear them.

02:07So, I tell them from inside that, okay.

02:09No one goes from back door.

02:12That's affecting them as well basically.

Category

Transcript

Recommended